How to carve another $1 billion from the state budget

Gov. Jan Brewer has certainly inherited a fine fiscal mess from her predecessor. This has inspire her to take desperate measures to try to keep state government afloat. The most desperate, unnecessary and damaging of these measures is a reputedly "temporary" $1 billion tax increase.The governor's reluctant resort to a tax increase is premised on ...

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